There is an LP, The North Quarry Street Irregulars - Sing for Fayette County. Members of the group: RUTH PERRY ROSIE STOEHR GEORGE WARD

This was a fund raiser to support deep south voter registration, circa 1960.

Can anyone provide information about this album (e.g. when it was recorded and released, were there any other releases by this group, information about the group members and any further recordings by each of them.

CORNELL UNIV. REL.: NORTH QUARRY STREET IRREGULARS LP | eBay This rare 1964 private-issue LP by the trio connected with Cornell University (Ruth Perry, Rosie Stoehr and George Ward), which is not available on CD (to ...

I was at Cornell 1964-68 and went to the Unmuzzled Ox in my first couple of years. It was a coffeehouse in the basement of a church just off campus. There was often informal folk music - I don't remember there being featured acts. I arrived on campus in September 1964, so I missed the May article in the Daily Sun.

Hi Susan, Thank you for your input. What was the "folk scene" at Cornell/Ithaca? Was there much interest in traditional music, protest, singer-songwriter, old-timey, blues, etc.? Were there many folk venues? Was Ellen Stekert around during your years there? Best wishes, Thomas.

There was a Cornell Folk Song Society, but the one time I went in 1964 they were mostly doing bluegrass, so I did not go back.

There was an informal group, loosely related to the Outing Club that got together most Friday nights in "Japes", the Outing Club building, for sing arounds. We did a lot of Paxton and other protest songs, but some trad as well. How interested are you? Do you want me to think about a list of some of what we sang?

I'm not sure whether the Ox was functioning all of my years there. I know I went my freshman and sophomore years. There was another coffeehouse on campus in my later years, the Temple of Zeus, in the basement of one of the liberal arts buildings - it had lots of statues: thus the name. I am not sure I went to anything there.

There were two "big weekends" a year, Fall and Spring weekends and one slightly less major. The university scheduled major concerts on these weekends. I think it was Fall Weekend that had a folk concert and Spring Weekend that had a rock concert. I think Joan Baez was 1964, Bob Dylan in 1965, Peter, Paul, and Mary in one of the later years. Maybe Ian and Sylvia for the other year, I'm not sure.

There was a Cornell Folk Festival in 1969, which I came back for since my roommate had not yet graduated. It was held in the big armory on campus and I think was one day, all day. What I mostly remember was that the sound crew should have been shot - they seem to have set one sound level and left, so the same amplification was used for Fairport Convention as for Boys of the Lough. So Boys of the Lough were almost inaudible and Fairport was intolerably loud.

I did not know Ellen Stekert. Howie Burson was there, but not a member of our Friday group.

We can take this to PM/email or talk when I next see you at a festival unless other people are interested.

I knew Ruth Perry. One of the members Rosie Stoehr or Ruth lived on North Quarry St. I went to Cornell until 1965 and lived around the corner on E. Seneca St. They performed at the Unmuzzled Ox and were very involved in protests against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. They sang the sort of folk music I associated with the McGarrigle (sp.?) Sisters later on. AThey had beautiful voices and performed at a time when there were relatively few non-pop music female bands.